Ilze Griezāne Exhibition In Search of the Ideal Landscape at the Latgale Central Library

The Latgale Central Library is hosting an exhibition by painter Ilze Griezāne, In Search of the Ideal Landscape. The exhibition brings together landscapes created in different years and seasons, revealing the artist’s long-standing dialogue with Latvian nature.

Landscape holds a special place in Ilze Griezāne’s creative work, with motifs of the Daugava River being especially significant. The artist draws inspiration from observing nature: a random ray of sunlight, the rhythm of clouds, a veil of mist, or the evening light can become the impulse for a painting. In her works, nature is revealed without human presence or a specific narrative, allowing viewers to feel its harmony, mystery, and timelessness.

The artist’s painting language is light and flowing. The oil paints are applied in glazes, creating an airy, watercolor-like quality and nuanced tonal range. Her paintings are marked by peace, silence, and clarity, inviting the viewer to pause, observe, and reflect.

The exhibition is also a story about the relevance of landscape painting today. In an age when visual culture is constantly changing, painting is still able to speak to the viewer directly and emotionally. In Ilze Griezāne’s works, the “ideal landscape” is not a specific place, but a feeling in which silence, light, and the mystery of nature’s presence meet.

Ilze Griezāne was born in 1970 in Līvāni. She graduated from the Rezekne Secondary School of Applied Arts and the Latgale branch of the Latvian Academy of Arts, and also earned a master’s degree in public management from Daugavpils University. She has been participating in exhibitions since 1991 and has held more than 20 solo exhibitions in Latvia. The artist has taken part in international painting plein airs in Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Portugal, and Turkey.

Since 2006, Ilze Griezāne has been a member of the painters’ group V.I.V.A., taking part in more than 35 exhibitions in Latvia and abroad together with the group. Her works are also regularly shown in exhibitions of artists from the Latgale region at the Latgale Culture and History Museum and the Mark Rothko Museum, as well as in exhibitions for the Jāzeps Pīgoznis Prize in Latvian landscape painting.

Ilze Griezāne is actively involved in visual art events in Latgale. Since 2004, she has been leading the Līvāni Glass and Craft Center.

The exhibition In Search of the Ideal Landscape at the Latgale Central Library will be on view until October 30, 2026.

Admission to the exhibition is free.